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telegraphing the retaliatory intent so you get nuked in court is one way of doing things

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

This left wing political correctness is getting out of control bsky.app/profile/dber...

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

What a dick.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm. We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open. Hello?

submitted 1 day ago • 486 comments

Y’all, this reminds me. We need to take photos of the prices at our regular go-to markets to record the prices. Then again in two weeks. Post your results.

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

Catholics looking at the Trump-as-the-Pope AI image he posted.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

I know everyone has moved on from the Abrego Garcia case but it's still important, and Trump has now accidentally opened up major new lines of inquiry by admitting that he could bring him back whenever he wants. Establishing who is advising Trump to defy SCOTUS is critical:

submitted 19 hours ago • 59 comments

“.. This tariff situation is a complete dumpster fire, and we're all getting burned. Here's the situation: Costs are up, and unfortunately, our prices will have to follow suit. .. Honestly, we're just as confused as everyone else.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/05/04/r...

submitted 19 hours ago • 77 comments

Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again. Bravo

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

what puzzles me about this is that medicine is about intervention — diagnose, treat, prevent, counsel, comfort the idea of detachment & indifference runs counter to the task and the duty we literally write prescriptions and orders with legal authority and responsibility we are not observers lol

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I don’t know, man, maybe it’s all the amplifying of Nazis on you platform, the stiff-arm salutes, the joking about Nazis, the cozying up to Germany’s far-right, your family’s history of supporting apartheid, the support for eugenics, the Nazi font hats, and, you know, the whole movement you’re in.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

It would be boring af but service journalism usually is. It would help.

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Everyday it becomes clearer to me that a comparative higher ed scholar needs to explain why Europe/Canada/Australia/Aotearoa will not just take on thousands of US scholars. I have to share multiple articles to help others understand this because we don't have a comprehensive essay to point to.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants: You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe. ➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office: www.ecfr.gov/current/titl... 1/8 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The articles of impeachment write themselves

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

Feels like the moment MeToo went from discussing sexual assault and harassment by celebrities to examining these same abuses by family and friends, we saw an acceleration of the argument that “society gives boys nothing”. An orchestrated backlash by abusers who saw that their unmasking was coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

warner is probably terrified of facing youngkin in a general (which, he shouldn't be) but i think he ought to be more worried about a primary challenge fueled by an absolutely furious virginia democratic electorate

submitted 1 day ago • 191 comments

This comment on r/army about Pete Hegseth is maybe the most brutal one I've seen so far from A Troop™️ www.reddit.com/r/army/comme...

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

NIH's work saves lives—& Trump is gutting it. Straight from D.C. I headed to Seattle Children's to hear from researchers & patients alike about the importance of NIH funding—it's not just about lines in a budget, it's about lifesaving discoveries. We ALL need to speak up to save it.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Teach boys about the value of consent from an early age and drill into them that they’ll get further in life if they learn to be kind and respectful and they’ll be fine.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Fellow historians, preferably those of the Jewish Holocaust, genocides, or Nazi Germany/Mussolini’s Italy, was there ever a time when law enforcement saved or protected us from fascism? Cause I truly can’t think of a time…

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

lol this is patently ridiculous, almost Inception levels of not giving an independent journalist credit. Subscribe to The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

This is torture

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

To be clear, Germany is cracking down on a Neo-Nazi party, and the US government is defending the Neo-Nazi party

submitted 3 days ago • 215 comments

Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?

submitted 3 days ago • 702 comments

Do not submit. Do not cave. The administration is on shaky legal ground and they know it. They're counting on capitulation; don't give it to them

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Is it waste, fraud, or abuse to push for a non-existent treatment that could top vaccines' 97% efficacy?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

"These $25,000 grants are for activities to address immediate needs following grant cancellations, including completing a wave of data collection, analyzing already collected data or writing, thoughtful project closure with community partners, or preparing grant proposals to continue the research."

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

A major blow to worldwide science and health....self-defeating and short-sighted to assume that it is saving us $. Control of infectious diseases and prevention of outbreaks will collapse without sci funds. The cost of the pandemics-to-come will dwarf any "saving" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It continues to be worth pointing out that a lot of what Trump and Musk are doing is illegal.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The President's Budget While it is worth taking a look, the President's Budget is an aspirational document that does not normally get all that much attention from Congress, particularly if there are dramatic shifts. I am not going to worry much about this (yet). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Every once in a while I think man, we were so close to never having to think about that motherfucker again, and then people said nah, let’s just ruin our lives instead

submitted 5 days ago • 275 comments

It's not useful but I just can't believe we let people who believe this shit within light years of power

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

The scientific community is at a pivotal moment right now. And we are seeing things start to shift. Now is the time for scientists and scientific institutions to step up. No one is coming to save us. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

So the strategy is to dump half a billion dollars into a method to make vaccines the way we used to decades ago, which was abandoned for good reason, and expect this method to fulfill a promise they couldn’t deliver on when used decades ago? What a fucking grift.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hundreds of demonstrators turned out across Santa Cruz County on Thursday for a series of May Day protests and labor actions in honor of International Workers’ Day. Photojournalist Kevin Painchaud captured the scenes from across the county.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is a really big deal and if you’re a member of the American public you should submit a comment saying it’s important not to implement this new plan because an independent civil service is essential in a democracy. ww2.aip.org/fyi/opm-adva...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

This is impoundment, it is illegal, and that should be in the headline www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

[Oprah voice] You go to jail! And you go to jail! Everyone goes to jail!

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

another illegal executive order

submitted 3 days ago • 135 comments

The goal is to kill scientific funding, stop every approved dollar from going on the door, and then claim it is savings, and hope the House GOP will cut the budget to enable a regressive tax cut.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments